Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.
Telescopes around the world have spotted a monster radio jet streaming from a quasar dating back to the first 1 billion years ...
The record-breaking winds are circling the nearby "puffy" exoplanet WASP-127b, and are traveling six times faster than the ...
Looking for life in the Milky Way is so 20th century – today's alien-hunters are going intergalactic to look for signs of ...
What if there are thousands of alien empires in the Milky Way, each spanning a few to maybe tens of star systems, chatting, trading, sometimes shooting or ignoring each other politely? And if so ...
We live in a golden age for space exploration. Scientists are gathering massive amounts of new information and scientific ...
In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope spotted a cosmic Bullseye galaxy, revealing evidence of a rare kind of galactic collision.